GenieNitro

The Robin Hood site is very good - lots of interaction with the kids and parents through the forums. Would love to find a clear simple moderatable way of setting up forums like that! Also taking the point about making sites colourful for kids. Have to think about how toget the right balance between fun and child friendly/professional and corporate! cheers for the ideas..

Hmm... smartpaper is a good idea. I use pdf format for newsletters etc. Some parts of our website are created using google sites. That way they can be (in theory) easily updated by staff. In practice, so far this means the admin staff uploading a copy of each letter home as they type it (thus avoiding me having to do it)! Having a staff list is quite a good idea too (didn't really think of that before!) S

Hi there, I'm sprucing up our primary school website and want it to be excellent! Would you care to share any links to really good Primary websites (that have perhaps been praised in Ofsted reports)? What features do you think should really be included to make them as useful as possible? cheers S

Hello there, I want to improve compatibility of our school website frontpage. I currently have photos scrolling down either side of the page using a html marquee type effect. It works brilliantly in all browsers gexcept for Internet explorer (of course!) So I'm looking for a free flash widget that will do a similar thing (ie have pictures of school life scrolling across or down the page). Anyone have any good suggestions? I'm not a coder and use iweb for our website development so looking for something I can copy, paste and tweak inside an iframe... cheers S

Yes that's an excellent idea! Will get on to our lovely, hardworking helpful LA contact forthwith! Steve

Well, I'm using Fronter for this as I want a news section that all staff can add to. Also, as everyone will be using Fronter anyway, I would like the news they see on their Fronter home page to be the same as on this general news/information page. Steve

Thanks for that... Sadly, Fronter (our MLE) strips out that code as 'unsafe' so it doesn't work. I have the 'reload every' plugin installed. Unfortunately it defaults to being disable off, so needs enabled every time the computer is started up. Was hoping to find a way of the refresh being automatic therefore immune from me forgetting to turn it on... Steve

Hello there, I have created a fronter information page that will be displayed publicly on a big screen I'd like the browser it is shown in to auto-refresh every 10 minutes or so, so as to include any new news that has been added. Is there a way of making Safari/Firefox default to doing this? Perhaps there is a line of html or some such which will force the page to reload? I have the Firefox 'reload every' plugin, but I would need to remember to right click the page on boot up in the morning to enable it... I'm bound to forget just when something really important comes up! Steve

Hello there, I'm giving my Year 3 class word documents to download from Fronter. Usually, the 'download' window appears on clicking the link. They can then access the file from that window. Sometimes it does not appear though and has to be brought forwards via the 'window' menu. Also, when children click a second link to download a file, it does not come to the front. This often leads to children repeatedly clicking the link and ending up with 9 copies of the same Word doc on their desktop. I sthere any way to set Safari up so that the download window always gains focus when a file is downloaded? cheers Steve

Yes would love to... as a lead teacher I can't do that directly - will have to go through the brough mle team... cheers Steve

Thanks Leco... As the vast majority of staff who will be using Fronter will access it via Mac OSX I think this is all going to be rather academic. When I choose edit file on a MAc, it gives me the option to paste the link into Word. However the open file dialog on OSX does not include a text box to type into, just a directory broeswer... so basically I think I am probably right to assume that it's not going to be workable of OSX for the time being! Steve

Hmm how odd! When I'm in the hand-in folder I dont even get the 'edit file' option on the menu next to the file. It's not there at all. When I have a go at editing a file via Win7 and Firefox, I'm given a link that it have to paste into the 'open' dialog of my word processor. When I do this, it opens up as read only so I can't edit it anyway!

Ah thanks very much! This doesn't work for me as I am running Fronter in Safari/Firefox under OSX. HAd a go in Windows 7...It wants to alow editing in the teachers' resources folder but not in the hand in folder (maybe because the children are the owners of the word files) Couldn't try it out though because for some reason the ActivX control wouldn't run... Ahh, so user friendly, this Fronter!

Hi there, this is probably not possible, but I'd like to be able to edit files (words, excel and other stuff) without downloading it from Fronter. For example, my children uploaded 30 word files today. I'd like to be able to add a comment without having to download, open, edit, save and re-upload them. Anyone know of a way of doing that? cheers Steve

Oh how I would love to! Sadly I have no admin rights, I am merely a lowly MLE lead! Borough is very keen on security and wants all that kind of stuff centralised. I find this frustrating and slow! Have asked and they tell me I am stuck with the passwords! cheers Steve